UCR loc. 8386, Pinyon Ridge north of Old Point Comfort (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.4° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 97.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: San Francisquito Formation, Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 58.7 Ma)

• Stratigraphic Unit: Ts2

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, pebbly, intraclastic, sandy, calcareous mudstone

• Description: Fossils occur in limy sandstone and armored mud ball conglomerate clasts from pebbly mudstone and in limy mudstone concretions.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. A. Kooser

Primary reference: M. A. Kooser. 1980. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the San Francisquito Formation, Transverse Ranges, California. 1-201 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 192859: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 20.04.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
"colonial"
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
"Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme
"Flabellum remondianum" = Flabellum cuneiforme Lonsdale 1845 stony coral
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet.
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
cf. Solariella sp.
cf. Solariella sp. Wood 1842 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
cf. Fulgoraria sp.
cf. Fulgoraria sp. Schumacher 1817 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes sp.
Gyrodes sp. Conrad 1860 moon snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella pachecoensis
Turritella pachecoensis Stanton 1896 turret shell
as ssp. "Turritella pachecoensis peninsularis"
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp.
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
"Teredo" sp.
"Teredo" sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam